Upcoming Dates

Friday, April 27th, 2018

PAK is back! This is the first concert of the new reincarnation of PAK. After playing bass in PAK for many years Ron Anderson is back on guitar with a more powerful heavier sound. New members Steve Blanco (Imperial Triumphant) on bass and Larry Kwartowitz (Cleric) on drums are stretching the bands previous boundaries pushing PAK to new sonic directions.

Headlining the night is Bo-Peep is a powerful and exciting "punk" band from Tokyo, Japan that blend chaotic guitar riffs, brutal rhythm and manic vocals with a melodic sensibility that echoes the raw but infectious energy of the grunge era. http://bo-peep3.com/english

Shardik is trio project from Matt Hollenberg the burning guitarist of Cleric. Shardik blends avant-garde classical, free jazz, dissonant math metal, ambient and world music into a powerful new mix. https://www.facebook.com/ShardikBand

1) OrakelOrakel is an electro-acoustic project of Kora/oud player/sound artist, Kane Mathis and tabla player/poet, Roshni Samlal, who began their collaboration at the Brooklyn Raga Massive. Using electronic compositional elements of sound design, field recordings, and drones, synthesized by composer Kane Mathis and writing by Roshni Samlal, they create a newly cinematic context for traditional elements of Indian classical percussion and Kora repertoire.

Both traditions contain philosophies of improvising within rhythmic structures and Orakel explores the ways in which each tradition’s canon is complimentary to the other’s. All of the compositions are based on shifting “taals” or rhythmic cycles found in Indian classical music that mathematically resolve into other cyclical material. The kora adds its own idiomatic rhythmic statements called “kumbengo” to the interaction. Breaks and arrangements draw alternately from both traditions.

https://www.facebook.com/orakelbk

2) Ron Anderson and Ayako Kanda (Japan)Ayako Kanda is an improvising performer whose medium is her voice. Low as an echo in a tunnel, then light as a child's conversation; chasing the band one moment, and ringing out wild and alone the next: Ayako's vocal performances encompass a kaleidoscopic range of expression.

She made her debut as a performer during her time at art school, where she also began painting. Today she performs improvised live sets around Tokyo and worldwide. In 2016, she formed a band of local musicians in New York City to record her first album, “Antigravity Vacation.”

http://ayakokanda.com

Ron Anderson is a guitarist, composer and improviser who plays traditional instruments like electric guitar but also anything that can make a sound, including a recording studio. He appears on over 70 releases and he has performed in over 20 different countries with multiple tours of North America, Europe and Japan.

Born in Jersey City in 1959. He has worked with many of the world’s most innovative musicians including Tatsuya Yoshida, Elliott Sharp, Jac Berrocal and John Zorn. He was a founding member of 1980’s no-wave band Rat At Rat R, his bands The Molecules and PAK have been vehicles for his ideas of combining composition and improvisation with various forms of rock music.

http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com

3) David First David First has always been fascinated by opposites and extremes. At 20 he played guitar with renowned avant-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in a legendary Carnegie Hall concert. Two years later he was creating electronic music as an artist-in- residence at Princeton (released in 2013 on Dais records) and leading a Mummerʼs String Band in Philadelphia parades. He has played in raucous drunken bar bands, semi-legal DIY basements and in pin-drop quiet concert halls with classical ensembles. As a composer First has created everything from finely crafted pop songs to long, severely minimalist microtonal droneworks. His AIDS crisis opera, The Manhattan Book of the Dead, was staged at LaMama’s Annex Theater (NYC) in 1995 and in Potsdam, Germany in 1996. His 2011 song, We Are (featuring TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone), was released to much acclaim in the Occupy Movement and was officially released on the compilation Occupy This Album which also featured tracks by Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono a.o. First’s performances often find him sitting trance-like without seeming to move a muscle, unless he is playing with his psychedelic punk band, Notekillers, at which time he is a whirling blur of hyperactive energy. He has been called ";a fascinating artist with a singular technique."; in the NYTimes, and "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young." in the Village Voice. First’s most recent project, Same Animal, Different Cages (Fabrica records), is a series of solo LPs on a variety of instruments, including acoustic guitar, analog synth, the most recent, Civil War Songs for solo harmonica, and sitar (TBR) spring 2018).

Saturday, September 24th, 2016

I am really excited to be playing tonight with my friend from Japan Sapcegrinder. Joining us on saxophone with be Nonoko Yoshida. Expect a full on grind-noise assault.

Also on the bill will be Deche-Charge, Final Exit, Sedem Minut StrachuPervent.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

Trans-Pecos

Ron Anderson&Brian; Chase/Pet Bottle Ningen/Brandon Seabrook - 8pm

9-15 Wyckoff Ave Ridgewood Queens, NY 11385

I will be performing with drummer Brian Chase at Trans-Pecos. It will be a celebration because our friend the Japanese sax player Nonoko Yoshida will be in town and performing with her band Pet Bottle Ninngen. Also performing will be the amazing Brandon Seabrook on solo guitar.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2016

Experi-MENTAL Festival 7 at Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY with the Murmurists

630 Bushwich Ave Brooklyn, NY 11206

Price: $15

The Mummurists is a project of Anthony Donovan who is an artist, musician, composer, improviser and writer based in England.He works solo, either as Murmurists or under his own name, and is associated with projects such as Destroyevsky, Ou_pi Golgotha.undead, Spidey Agutter and the.clinamen. An ardent collaborator, he has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Jochen Arbeit, Geoff Leigh, PAS, Steve Beresford and Damo Suzuki. Donovan co-curates the respected labels Classwar Karaoke and suRRism-Phonoethics with Jaan Patterson. His interests are all either obscure or opaque, but morally authentic.

Thursday, February 18th, 2016

I will be playing a guitar duet with one my favorite guitar players in the world Valentin Carette. Valentin is from Dunkirk, France. In 2011 PAK duet toured Europe with Velentin's fantastic band Yolk. Here is a short video I shot at one of their performances. Note the the concert was held in a 16th century farm house. https://youtu.be/DHPHrGeOQ5I

Ron first performed with Shelly Hirsch in 1994 at the Vorax Festival - Vicenza, Italy when Shelly sat in with the Molecules. Anthony Coleman is a guest performer on the 2011 Ron Anderson’s PAK Tzadik release Secret Curve

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Ava and Ron have perform as an electric guitar duet a number of times the past two years, always with surprising and interesting results. They are both masters on their instruments and wizards on effects pedals.

TLALOC BEAT, IS THE DEBUT EP BY OBLIQUE QUARTET, A UNUSUAL BAND FOUNDED IN EARLY 2014 IN MEXICO CITY. OBLIQUE QUARTET IS A WILD CROSS-GENERATIONAL UNIT THAT INCORPORATES APPARENTLY UNRELATED STYLES LIKE ROCK, NOISE AND FREE IMPROVISATION TO BUILD UP A MAGICAL AND CRAZY AURAL REALM. INSPIRED BY THE HUMAN OFFERINGS MADE TO TLALOC, THE GOD OF RAIN IN AZTEC CIVILIZATION, OBLIQUE QUARTET MUSIC IS A SONIC MAYHEM FEATURING SCREAMING GUITAR OF RON ANDERSON, SYNTH NOISE-SWIRLS OF MARCO FIERRO, HYPNOTIC BASS OF CARLOS FIERRO AND LIGHTNING-FAST GROOVING DRUMS OF AZAEL GONZÁLEZ. THE SEVEN TRACKS ON TLALOC BEAT FIND THE TIRELESS QUARTET EXPLORING THE DEPTHS OF TENOCHTITLAN. TLALOC BEAT IS A CRITICAL DOCUMENT THAT LEADS TO AN AWAKENING OF INTENSE LISTENING EXPERIENCE.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

Isabelle Duthoit and Franz Hautzinger are amazing deep listening improvisators from Europe. Last year’s gig that we did together at JACK was one of my favorite concerts of 2014. JACK has invited us to perform there again this year and I have added Michael Evans on drums.

I will be playing tomorrow night with Maxime Petit who is a visiting bass player from Lille, France, master saxophone player and a very old friend of mine Daniel Carter and maybe a last minute guest drummer.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

La Iglesia Santa Cruz

Ron Anderson/Ava Mendoza - 8pm sharp!

176 Saint Nicholas Brooklyn, NY 11237

Price: $10

I’m doing another duet gig with guitarist Ava Mendoza. The last time we played together was in February and it was really amazing. Here is a short bit from that performance. http://youtu.be/iFlzYcqmWkc

Also on the bill this night: William Parker- solo, and Michael Foster/James Ilgen Fritz/Andrew Barker.

Saturday, June 7th, 2014

Two nights of revelry with eight musical daredevils.. Organized by Chris Cochrane and Brian Chase.

Come for the music, stay for the deep fried twinkies; meet a lover on the boardwalk, or at the Freak Bar next door (the venue is adjacent to the Circus Sideshow)... Kiss a man that's a woman, or a woman that's a man...?

TWINS OF ELDORADO is a modern art song ensemble featuring vocalist Kristin Slipp and trumpeter Joe Moffett. A highly experimental and collaborative duo, Slipp and Moffett explore/explode conventions of sound, voice and meaning, taking the art song format in new and interesting directions. Twins of El Dorado has performed in various settings including acclaimed venues such as The Stone and Issue Project Room in New York and Jordan Hall in Boston. http://www.promnightrecords.com/artists/twins

KID MILLIONS AND JIM SAUTER: Jim Sauter is a saxophonist and founding member of Borbetomagus. Kid Millions continues to be one of the most acclaimed and pioneering drummers in New York. His work began as a principle member of Oneida and follows with his own group, Man Forever, which has performed at the Met and bridges the gap between avant-rock drumming and classical percussion ensemble styles. Collaborations and performances include those with Spiritualized, Jim Sauter and William Basinski. http://kidmillionsjimsauterduo.blogspot.com/http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Man-Forever/

JON CATLER is a guitarist/composer living in NYC. He has released over a dozen recordings of original music, written the book 'The Nature Of Music,' and is Co-founder of the American Festival of Microtonal Music and the World Out Of Tune Festival. Catler has performed worldwide in various Just Intonation tuning systems, and designs fretting systems for guitar, including the 64-tone JI and 12-Tone Ultra Plus systems, made available to the public through FreeNote Music. http://www.freenotemusic.com/site/index.html

75 DOLLAR BILL: Rick Brown plays percussion and homemade horns, and Che Chen plays electric guitar "…Che Chen’s guitar: a cut-rate Japanese model sketching looped figures inside old Arabic modes, pushing jagged sound through a small amplifier...the drummer Rick Brown sat on a square wooden box, building odd or compound rhythms, turning them around and blurring distinctions between downbeats and upbeats… One couldn’t do without the other." -Ben Ratliff, for the NY Timeshttp://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/

HÄSSLICHE LUFTMASKEN is a metal band led by Nick Didkovsky (guitar/voice), with Josh Lopes (guitar), Jesse Krakow (bass), and Jon Lango (drums). www.facebook.com/luftmasken

I have known Isabelle Duthoit from many years and she is one of the most amazing improvisers to be found in Europe. She is coming to North America to do a series of concerts with Austrian trumpet player Franz Hautzinger. I have decided to play bass for this gig and have invited Brian Chase to join us.

Born in 1970 in Montargis. Classically trained Isabelle Duthoit is moving quickly towards today’s music working with various ensembles and composers. It finds its rightful place in the world of free improvisation. With the Trio Sofa, project photo phonographic and music, she tries to play the sound (music) in a sound and visual territory daily, listening space and slip into vitality … without staging. As has always been attracted by her voice, she has developed only a singing technique singular language before language. She sings and improvised solo and duet with Phil Minton. In 2008, she was a resident at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (Japan) to perform a solo vocal performance in relation to the sound world of Noh and Bunraku theater. From 1995 to 2005, it is committed to the creation and improvised music by creating Fruits Festival Mhère “fields of improvisation” with Jacques Di Donato. Since 1997 she teaches clarinet and improvisation at the Conservatoire Departmental Evry (Essonne).

Detours often lead to more thrilling goals because they open up new perspectives. Franz Hautzinger has taken long and bendy detours and turned to many dead ends, he has spent years without instrumental activity and has made a hopeful new start. All this, those victories and defeats, this “History from the Total Crash to ‘Emergency Individualism’”, as he himself described it, made Franz Hautzinger the highly profiled musical personality that he is today.

The conscious decision to avoid electronic sound sources but to still comprehend the development of digital music on the trumpet – the quarter tone trumpet purchased in 1997 – were decisive stages for the creation of Franz Hautzinger’s sensational solo trumpet CD “Gomberg” (2000) on which he presented this new until then unheard cosmos of sound that he had developed on his instrument. Hautzinger positioned himself with “Gomberg” at the front line of the international improvisation avant-garde; collaborations and CD records with Derek Bailey, the “AMM” veterans Keith Rowe and John Tilbury as well as Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz or Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M followed. The step into the world of decelerated sound microscopy and from 2003 on the re-discovery of musical sensualism, the confrontation of his trumpet sounds with groove and tunes (“Regenorchester XI” and XII) can be considered as important stages in his development. Franz Hautzinger teaches at the Vienna Music University since 1989, is a member of the Berliner Ensemble “Zeitkratzer” since 1999 and received comissions from Klangforum Vienna amongst others. He is a globetrotter whose unmistakeable musical signature is known from Vienna to Berlin, London to Beirut, or in Tokyo, New York, and Chicago. Franz Hautzinger has shown that even in times where postmodernism is history an instrument can still be reinvented.

Brian Chase plays in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at #50 in Gigwise's list of The Greatest Drummers of All Time. He has performed in a number of experimental duos with other musicians such as Stefan Tcherepnin and Seth Misterka, with whom he released a CD Duo on the Australian Heathen Skulls label in 2007.Other musicians he has played with include Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott, and groups Oakley Hall, Blarvuster, and klezmerfusionists The Sway Machinery. In May 2010 the Chase/Misterka Duo performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivaland then a month long Australian tour. A second record The Shape of Sound was released to coincide

Brian Chase plays in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at #50 in Gigwise's list of The Greatest Drummers of All Time. He has performed in a number of experimental duos with other musicians such as Stefan Tcherepnin and Seth Misterka, with whom he released a CD Duo on the Australian Heathen Skulls label in 2007.Other musicians he has played with include Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott, and groups Oakley Hall, Blarvuster, and klezmerfusionists The Sway Machinery. In May 2010 the Chase/Misterka Duo performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivaland then a month long Australian tour. A second record The Shape of Sound was released to coincide. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.fKSLKz8Q.dpuf

I’m very excited to perform my first concert in Mexico City with a new band called OBLIQUE QUARTET. Also on the bill this evening is Mexican sound artist VERÓNICA MOTA. Facebook announcement - https://www.facebook.com/events/599984403406257

Azael Gonzalez is a young drummer on an upward trajectory with solid musical training. At only 13 years old he recorded his first album for EMI Music in 2003 with his first band Ellie. In 2012, Azael was invited to record and play with bands like Kill Aniston, Mood Fu and Joe Volume. Recently, Azael is presented with two of his most recent projects Muuk (Experimental Rock) and Annapura (Hardcore). Azael Gonzalez has performed and / or collaborated with: Lilo, Annapura, Muuk, Kill Aniston, Mood Fu, Joe Volume, TLUPR, A Letter For, At Lisbon, Via Da Voi, Goodbye Kristen and Ellie. https://www.facebook.com/azaelgonzalezdrums

Marco Fierro is a composer and musician with a history of 23 years creating cutting-edge music. He plays drums and analog and digital synthesizers. His projects that range from punk to ambient, drone to experimental electronics. Lately, Marco Fierro is writing and recording the music for what will be their debut album Burstbot. He has performed and / or collaborated with: Undress Beton, Reed Evan Rosenberg, Juan Jose Rivas, Rogelio Sosa, Mario de Vega, Gabriel Lauber, Itzam Cano, Arcangel Constantini, Iván Abreu, Tana Barbier, Lisa Gervassi, Sergio Sánchez, Amed Baltézar, Amira Baltézar, Rodrigo Ambriz, Asael Ramirez, Enrique Arriaga, Iñigo Barandiaran, Gudinni Cortina, Ricardo Dorantes, Antonio Dominguez, among others. http://www.burstbot.com

Veronica Mota is a sound artist residing in Berlin, Germany, since 2002. Her sound works have received great attention in Europe, Australia and the United States. In Germany Verónica Mota has produced a number of sound works which have been presented as part of contemporary dance pieces, performance, film, radio and live concerts. Her creative collaborations have been with artists and musicians living in Berlin: Miriam Wuttke (Performance Art), Jon Evans (Live Music / Performance Art), Annie Stubbs (Music), John Murphy (Music), Alain Ledezma (Music ) and Miro Mastropasqua (Film), among others. Also, Veronica Mota Galindo has participated in group exhibitions featuring audio/video as well as performance art in Germany, England, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Italy. http://espectranegra.bandcamp.com

JOHN ZORN ANNUAL END OF THE YEAR IMPROV WEEK—A STONE BENEFITA special week of benefit concerts featuring some of the most exciting improvisers in New York. John Zorn will be appearing with a different lineup every night so come on down multiple nights and help support The Stone! All proceeds go to help pay our rent and upkeep.DEC 25—29

Thursday, November 14th, 2013

This will be the third in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator. The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time.

Ron Anderson (guitar) Brian Chase (drums)Ron Anderson is a self-taught rock composer who starting experimenting with new rock concepts, noise, free improvisation while in high school in the mid 1970’s. In 1980 he was one of the founding members of Rat At Rat R in Philadelphia. He moved to New York City’s Lower East Side in 1982. He started working in his home recording studio experimenting with tape editing, found sounds, noise, and improvisation. He combined these elements with composition and released his first LP entitled Fever Dream in 1987. Ron moved to Oakland, CA in 1989 and shortly thereafter formed The Molecules; they released a total of 6 CD’s. He and The Molecules were introduced to the European music community at the Musique Action Festival in Nancy, France in 1993 and since then he has been a regular on the European festival and club circuit, as well as touring in Japan, Canada and the United States. After living in Geneva, Switzerland for one year, he moved back to New York City in 1999 where he formed PAK. He has collaborated with many musicians on numerous projects. He appears on over 60 releases, most recently Chris Pitiokos, Weasel Walter, Ron Anderson – Maximalism (CD) - Eleatic Records

Brian Chase plays in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at #50 in Gigwise's list of The Greatest Drummers of All Time. He has performed in a number of experimental duos with other musicians such as Stefan Tcherepnin and Seth Misterka, with whom he released a CD Duo on the Australian Heathen Skulls label in 2007.Other musicians he has played with include Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott, and groups Oakley Hall, Blarvuster, and klezmerfusionists The Sway Machinery. In May 2010 the Chase/Misterka Duo performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivaland then a month long Australian tour. A second record The Shape of Sound was released to coincide.

Ava Mendoza/Tim Dahl/Matt Nelson/Nick PodgurskiAva Mendoza is a guitarist from Oakland, CA who has been active for the last decade playing her own music and in many different groups. She has toured throughout the U.S., Europe and recorded or performed with a broad spectrum of musicians including Tune-Yards, Fred Frith, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline. Critics have called her "Oakland's avant-jazz virtuoso" - Village Voice), "a wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique," NPR.

Insect Ark - Dana SchecterInsect Ark is the new solo project from Dana Schechter, known for her work with Bee and Flower and M. Gira’s Angels of Light (Swans). Based in Brooklyn, INSECT ARK is composed and performed as an analog-electronic hybrid: one woman, a sampler, a bass, a lapsteel and a keyboard. Creating her personal soundtrack to the human psyche’s underbelly, Schechter’s sounds weave a brooding, textural landscape, a starless night spiked with sparkling moments of light and flash. Intimate and cold at the same time, this foray into her aggressive and experimental musical side braids a strong sense of melody into the twists and turns with delay drenched lapsteel, distorted synthesizers and bass, and sparse drum programming.

Anthony ColemanAccomplished keyboard player and composer Anthony Coleman has gained recognition as an inspired player and talented standout of the avant-garde and klezmer-oriented jazz coming out of N.Y.C.'s downtown. Coleman has performed and recorded with just about every musician involved in this downtown scene, including John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, David Moss, Dave Douglas, David Shea, Gary Lucas, David Krakauer, Marc Ribot, Coleman has received commissions for his compositions from various ensembles including Bang on a Can, Concert Artists Guild, and the Crosstown Ensemble.

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.1PHBLPuS.dpuf

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.1PHBLPuS.dpuf

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.1PHBLPuS.dpuf

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.1PHBLPuS.dpuf

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time. - See more at: http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com/gig/#sthash.1PHBLPuS.dpuf

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Sonic Circuits Festival is an annual six day internaitional music fesival held in Washington, DC. Sonic Circuits seeks to expose audiences to cutting edge contemporary music that defies genres, and offer artists new platforms to present their music and opportunities to network and collaborate with artists from around the world.

Saturday, September 28th, 2013

The Molecules east coast tour moves south. With Philadelphia’s Pyramid Minds an improvisational group with ambient, minimal, and trance tendencies, led by Jeff Daniels (Burden, Blackest Lava), "The Moo Noo", and Travis Woodson (Split Red, Electric Simcha). And Superlith - Trombonist Dan Blacksberg (who has performed with Anthony Braxton Quartet and Archer Spade with Nick Millevoi) and Casio keyboard modifier Julius Masri (Electric Simcha, Avant-rock band Lionshead, and Chakra Khan/Air Pirates also with Millevoi) formed Superlith, an experimental musical duo based out of Philadelphia.

This will be the second in a series of music events with Ron Anderson as curator.The concept is to have four exciting, powerful, new or experiment, avant-goups or solo performers each from different musical genres. Each group or soloist is strictly limited to 30 minutes of performance time.

8pm Merrill Clark - performing world premiers of his compositions - Outlands (the Imaginary Jam with Bruce) - Give a Human something Bright and Shiny - Where the Big Kids Play. Mr. Clark’s compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Brazil, and he has been awarded many honors, including the 1972 Winner in Composition of the American College Jazz Festival which resulted in his conducting a concert of his works at the KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, in 1973. He has written many works in a wide variety of genres, from unaccompanied solo works like to large scale orchestral works, including a musical theater piece, two bass concertos, a viola concerto and many chamber works. Mr. Clark has compiled a double CD of chamber music for wind instruments titled, Heart Songs and Science Projects, and will soon release Twisted Bits of Sound for Amplified String Quintet and Percussion. Brenda Vincent (electric violin) Jason Hwang (electric violin) Joel Rudin (electric viola) Matt Goeke (electric cello) Tia Vincent-Clark (electric guitar and vocals) Merrill Clark (electric contra bass) Annette Aguilar (percussion and conductor)

9pm Valerie Kuehne - Cellist and performance artist Valerie Kuehne is a cross-pollinated work of chaos fusing together music, performance art, narrative, and experimental curation. After moving to New York to study Philosophy at The New School, Ms. Kuehne has systematically bifurcated her time between touring the planet, performing in as many unexpected settings as possible, and building a community for experimental music and performance art in New York. Ms. Kuehne’s work operates under principles of surprise, and investigates obsession, comedy, decay, forensic pathology, sex, hypnogogia, viscera, death. She created and composed for the ensemble Dream Zoo and is one third of the improvised music trio Prehistoric Horse.

10pm Chris Pitsiokos (sax, electronics) Weasel Walter (drums) Ron Anderson (guitar) - Weasel Walter and Ron Anderson are both cornerstones of the New York avant-music scene. Since the early nineties, these improvisers and composers have lived a parallel musical existence: Weasel with his band The Flying Luttenbachers and Ron with The Molecules and PAK. Over the last 30 years they have performed with a long list of some of the most creative musicians on the planet and they collectively appear on nearly 200 commercial releases. This night they will be joined by relative newcomer Chris Pitsiokos who has had an incredibly active performance schedule in the last 18 months. Recently, the trio was in the studio recording a new CD that is scheduled for release in July on Eleatic Records and will be available at the performance.

11pmLes Rhinoceros – formed in 2008 by bassist and composer Michael Coltun. a trio consisting of bass, guitar, and drums. Les Rhinocéros was the first release in Tzadik’s new spotlight series - a series focusing on “exemplary young bands with great dedication, passion, talent and imagination." The series came to life after executive producer John Zorn heard Les Rhinocéros and knew he wanted the band as part of the “Tzadik Family”. Thus the Spotlight Series was born as a means to release this album and, going forward, other albums by exceptional young artists handpicked by Zorn."

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Interview with Ron Anderson and Chris Pitsiokos on WKCR's Afternoon New Music. They will be talking about SUBGENRE a new music series held at JACK in Brooklyn and their new CD release with Weasel Walter called MAXIMALISM.

SUBGENRE 2

SUBGENRE 2

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Saturday, July 20th, 2013

Prospect Range

Synthesizer duo! - Al Margolis & Ron Anderson - 8pm

1226 Prospect Ave Brookyn, NY 11215

Price: $5+ donation

Synthesizer duo! - Ron Anderson, Al Margolis

Al Margolis - Activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound Of Pig Music, co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition.

Chuck Bettis was raised in the fertile HarDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's downtown musical tribe. He utilizes electronics and throat for his sonic protest research. Presently he is working on improvising, recording, or composing with an array of musicians from around the world. www.chuckbettis.com

Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader .Born In Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. She has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 40 records for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt Records. Courvoisier has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Mark Feldman ,Yusef Lateef, Ikue Mori, Erik Friedlander, Herb Robertson, Tim Berne,Susie Ibarra , Joelle Leandre among others. Since 1997, she performs regularly in solo and in Duo with Mark Feldman. She is a member of Mephista ; co-leads the Courvoisier/ Feldman Quartet and is the leader her own quintet "Lonelyville". Since 2010, she has been working as a pianist and composer with the new project of the flamenco dancer Israel Galvan "la Curva". Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes créateurs , Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Création, and Switzerland's 2010 Grand Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise de la Culture www.sylviecourvoisier.com

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics, combining ordered systems with intuitive choices of sound making using found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and analog electronics. He has worked with a wide variety of artists nationally and internationally. www.michaelevanssounds.com

Saturday, June 29th, 2013

JACK has been presenting the most diverse and electrifying theater, music, and dance in Brooklyn for an entire year! Join us at JACK for a Hoi Polloi hang, a celebratory retrospective, a Dionysian festival, and a indeterminately Bohemian bash featuring collaborators, curators, and just great people who have made us what we are.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Yesmisolga Records and the Delancey present four unique talents of the no wave/ post rock/ art rock scene who will converge in New York on May 15th. Collectively this trio of groups has revolved around the Micheal Gira (Swans) axis for more than 20+ years. Additionally, Ron Anderson (Molecules, PAK and long time collaborator of Ulan Bator) will play his vintage Korg MS 20 and bass!

Ulan Bator was produced on Young Gods. Many members are long standing members of Faust as well. Gira says of Ulan Bator: "one of the best french bands in the last 300 years!" Ulan Bator's first ever US tour will promote its new album "En France, En Trance"available only on the US tour. A live broadcast of Ulan bator can be heard on Brian Turner's WFMU show on May 7th. This show will be a Bon Voyage party for Ulan Bator and will be the last chance to see them on this tour.

Dana Schecter (Insect Ark) is known from her work with Angels of Light and Bee and Flower. Insect Ark is a solo project, described as having "A weighty drone vibe, beautifully drawn-out space filled with low-end waves crashing, gorgeous guitar textures, intriguing siren calls" (Dusted Magazine, March 2013). Tonight will be the Vinyl record release party for Insect Ark's new EP, "Long Arms".www.insectark.com

Ron Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist and consummate traveler who appears on over 60 recording through out the world. Tonight he will play his original Korg MS20. He started playing with Ulan Bator in 1998 while living in Geneva. He has also performed and/or recorded with – ANOTHONY COLEMAN, JAC BERROCAL, MARK RIBOT, ELLIOTT SHARP THE SUN CITY GIRLS, SHELLY HIRSCH, THE POOL, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, JACK WRIGHT, JOHN ZORN and many more.

Martin Bisi needs no introduction, as an indie rock performer and record producer. He has realized albums by Sonic Youth, Swans, Bill Laswell, Boredoms, John Zorn, Foetus, etc etc...Bisi continues his history of sonic excess and layering, which can be ambient and disorienting, and swings between heavier post-rock and indie songs, and intimate and entertaining interludes.

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

JOHN ZORN ANNUAL END OF THE YEAR IMPROV FESTIVAL—A STONE BENEFIT (night 2) - 8 and 10 pm

Avenue C and 2nd street New York, NY USA

Price: $25

John Zorn (sax) Ikue Mori (electronics) Anthony Coleman (piano) Ron Anderson (guitar) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Brian Chase (drums) Uri Gurvich (sax) Ilhan Irsahin (sax) Nonoko Yoshida (sax) and many special guests. COME ON DOWN AND SUPPORT THE STONE EAST VILLAGE STYLE WITH OUR END OF THE YEAR BLOW OUT IMPROV RENT PARTY!

Bassoon is an instrumental metal trio. “Bassoon occasionally avails itself of sheet music onstage, but don’t let that give you the wrong idea. The power trio is one of Brooklyn’s heaviest and most challenging, bringing to mind a mixture of Melvins-style avant-sludge and daredevil ’70s fusion.” Time Out New York

Elevator Rose is a contemporary-classical group. They perform great "classical" music written during the last 50 years. For this performance they will be lead by Vasu Panicker and will perform as a larger ensemble with guest musicians from Quiet City, thingNY, Anti-Social Music, and Innovox.

Blipvert – Will Redmound (electronics) The term “Blipvert,” first used in the Max Headroom TV series, refers to an unrelenting stream of information resulting in a state of complete sensory overload. In a live setting, BlipVert’s highly frenetic and unpredictable performances make each show an experience to remember.

I have been wanting to do one of these Improv Nights for a long time now, the musicians perform off in duets,trios, etc. and then they all play together in a large group at the end. All the money goes to the Stone to help keep it up and running.

Dither announces our third annual Invisible Dog Extravaganza! – a raucous festival of creative music and art at the Invisible Dog Art Center. The evening will showcase a cross-section of New York’s diverse experimental music scene, with influences spanning jazz, classical music, theater, electronica and the avant garde. The New Yorker dubbed Dither’s extravaganza an “official concert on the edge” and Time Out New York asks you to “immerse yourself in the here and now of New York’s postclassical music scene.”

There will be 10 short sets throughout the evening, featuring a distinguished line-up of guests: Legendary keyboardist Anthony Coleman will perform in a duo with the multifaceted saxophonistAshley Paul; Guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone will present their beautiful and odd blend of compositions, songs, and improv; Victoire will perform the artfully honed chamber pop of Missy Mazzoli; Peter Evans will offer a solo set of extensible trumpeting; Preshish Moments will produce a sonic palette of live electronica/exotica; Object Collection will provide an invigorating onslaught of maximalist theater; TILT Brass will perform Jagged Mesa, an explosive composition by Lois V. Vierk.

Dither’s offerings include John Zorn’s Lacrosse, a game piece which they have developed in collaboration with the composer. The quartet will also perform a set of compositions written for them by emergent composers Paula Matthusen and Jascha Narveson, plus a new piece by Dither member Josh Lopes. As a centerpiece to the evening, Dither will expand their forces to an orchestra of 20 guitars to perform Phill Niblock’s 2 lips, a monolithic microtonal composition which Niblock has adapted for Dither for an upcoming release on Touch Music.

Ron Anderson’s PAK presents new music inspired by Ron’s current obsession with cycling. Recently PAK has been touring as a duet and this will be a rare opportunity to hear this powerful and complex music played by larger group of musicians.

Paroxysmal and unpredictable, spazz-core trio the Molecules was a Bay Area underground fixture in the early '90s. Formed in 1990 by guitarist Ron Anderson, drummer Thomas Scandura, and bassist Chris Millner, the Oakland-based band went through two more bassists, the third being John Shiurba. The industrious Molecules played local shows constantly; they seemed to specialize in opening for Japanese noise bands. The oft-challenging performances predated much of today's avant-weird by a decade, serving up a genre scramble that drew equally from prog, no wave, punk. They managed to release several exceptional albums and kept up a hefty touring regimen that included jaunts across North America, Europe, and Japan. The band's keen approach to deconstructing song arrangements and experimental willpower were adored by many Japanese noise rockers and led to collaborations and tours with Otomo Yoshihide, Melt Banana, Merzbow, and Ruins. This frantic and exciting show is definitely not for the fainthearted.

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

Ron Anderson, Lawry Zilmrah, Dave Tamura, Robert Pepper

The 4th edition of the The Experi-MENTAL Festival will be held on October 5, 6 and 7, 2012.

The Experi-MENTAL Festival 4 will be a three-day music festival concentrating on creative and experimental music performance of all genres and artistic disciplines. The festival is run by the Brooklyn based experimental audio/video project PAS and the Alrealon Musique label. The festival will take place in Brooklyn on the weekend of October 5, 6, and 7th at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, New York. The festival focuses on new and innovative techniques of sound technique and performance. We are focused in developing a network of experimental arts that are supportive of their peers. It’s not about ego but about community.